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AF FIRSTS

1903 -- The First Heavier-than-Air Flight

1907-1911 -- Signal Corps No. 1, the Army's First Airplane

1908 -- First Fatality in a Powered Aircraft

1909 -- First Air Arm Flying School

1923 -- The Beginnings of Inflight Refueling

1947 -- Breaking the Sound Barrier

1948 -- Integrating the Air Force

                       

EARLY HISTORY

1907-1947 -- The Lineage of the US Air Force

1926 -- The U.S. Army Air Corps Act

1935 -- The General Headquarters Air Force

1943-1947 - Struggle for Air Force Independence

1947 -- The National Security Act of 1947

1947-1990 -- Headquarters USAF Reorganization

1953 -- The Emergence of the Strategic Air Command

Evolution of the Department of the Air Force

One Hundred Ten Years of Flight: Chronology 1903-2012

Timeline: A Century of Air and Space Power 1903-2003   

 

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